by Brittain Ladd | Aug 12, 2023 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media
To understand what TikTok is up to, one must first understand that TikTok is controlled by their parent company, ByteDance, based in China and worth $200B. Although TikTok is wildly popular in the USA, the majority of revenue and profits at ByteDance are driven by...
by Brittain Ladd | Jul 11, 2023 | E-Commerce, Marketing, No Retreat, No Surrender, Social Media
For those of you who don’t follow Linette Lopez, I encourage you to do so. The articles she writes for Insider always have a degree of bared fangs and sharp claws mingled with humor and facts. This article reinforces much of what I wrote would happen to Twitter in...
by Brittain Ladd | May 16, 2023 | AI, Economics, Logistics, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
I’m in Florida this week with a technology client that I advise. The primary topic of discussion is AI followed by more AI. The company has no choice. AI has changed everything related to business. Twitter has hired a new CEO. Makes sense. Elon Musk has more important...
by Brittain Ladd | Apr 14, 2023 | AI, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail, Social Media
Elon Musk, Founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and who acquired Twitter in 2022 for $40B, is launching his own AI company called X.AI Corporation. Musk has brought on Igor Babuschkin, a former DeepMind employee, to lead the efforts. I’ve been expecting Musk to...
by Brittain Ladd | May 19, 2022 | Newsletter, No Retreat, No Surrender
Everybody wants to know what kind of tank is in the picture. It’s a Merkava IV. It’s the main battle tank of the IDF – Israel Defense Forces – and it’s an incredible feat of engineering. I use the picture of the Merkava as an example of...
